Terrorism was: [geeks] POWER5!!!!

[Brian Dunbar]

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dittman [mailto:dittman at dittman.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:52 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: Terrorism was: [geeks] POWER5!!!!


> > Don't forget about the USS Liberty and Jonathan Pollard.
> 
> Neither incident was 'terrorism'. They both fall into the espionage arena,
> totally different than terrorism! The USS Liberty was an attack on a naval
> intelligence (espionage) ship during a war, claimed to be an accident, who
> knows the real reason, but even if it was intentional (which I personally
> doubt) they were military personnel in a war zone, not civilians going
about
> their daily routine, then suddenly blown up! And Pollard was a spy, I'm
sure
> Israel has many more working here, and I'm sure we have plenty working in
> Israel, again nothing even close to terrorism

I fully believe, based on the reports I've read, that the
attack was not an accident.  They were noncombatants that
were attacked without provocation.  That's terrorism to me.
<snip>

Minor point of discussion; the crew of the Liberty were in the Navy, aboard
a ship cruising near a war zone.  Terrorism or not, accident or not, they I
don't think they could be called non-combatants, could they?

~brian